at elbows
Example Sentences
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It's quite intense to concentrate for that long, staring at elbows and waiting for fouls.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2021
“I was out at elbows, with empty pockets, and a sword which peered through the sheath.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021
The key piece: An abrasion- and wind-resistant black leather motorcycle jacket with box-quilting detail and removable armor at elbows, shoulders and back.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2015
Purity was the word that summed up the show, which opened with dresses falling in pleats, as if on a Grecian column, the cloth tinted pink gold and with gilded bracelets at elbows and wrists.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2012
And in truth a theologian in liquor is not a respectable object, and a hermit, though he may be out at elbows, must not be in debt to the tailor.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
